Federal High Court stops FCCPC from issuing licences

The Federal High Court successful Lagos on Monday held that Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, has nary authorization to issues licences but tin lone oversee airtime and information recognition services.

The tribunal clarified that the Commission’s powers relation alongside those of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, alternatively than replacing them.

Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa, who delivered the judgement successful Suit No. FHC/L/CS/760/2026, determined that the DEON Consumer Lending Regulations 2025 autumn wrong the statutory and law powers of the FCCPC. 

Furthermore, the justice emphasized that the narration betwixt the FCCPC and sector-specific regulators is 1 of complementarity, stating that “concurrency means coexistence, not displacement.”

The tribunal confirmed the precedence of the FCCPC successful matters of contention and user extortion arsenic outlined successful Sections 104 and 105 of the FCCPA 2018, portion besides safeguarding the NCC’s technical, licensing, and prudential duties arsenic defined by the Nigerian Communications Act 2003.

The tribunal ruled that the FCCPC does not person the authorization to contented licenses, and that the DEON Regulations bash not found a telecommunications licensing framework. The NCC continues to beryllium the exclusive authorization liable for licensing entities ...